The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-28
COM MENT AMD OPINION.

Mr. RANDALL wishes it to be understood that
his congressional district is not for Josephs.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
SOME liquor men seem willing to furnish all
the motive power needed to run the prohibition
buzz-saw at lightning speed.-Philadelphia
Times
THE idea that Henry George. the free trader.
should be chosen leader of the laboring men
who are protectionists, is very funny indeed.
Atlanta Constitution.
GRAIN of consolation for Vctorias 5000 600
discontinued Irish subjects may be found in the
philosophic reflection that he who jubilates last
may jubilate longest.-Boston Globe.
HARPER and Hopkins appear to be a brace Of
about as big scoundrels az ever went unhanged.
1t is hoped that the Cincinnati fail is stronger
than its Fidelity Bank.-Chicago Times.
WHENEVER you a man paper bowling
against the G. A. r.. you can rest assured it is
because he or it has been unable to make use of
the order for some selfish purpose. National
Republican
THE Hon. Grover Cleveland is endeared to the
hearts of the unreconstructed fre-eaters OF the
late Confederacy not SO much for what he has
done for them as by what he wanted to do and
couldn't. -Philadelphia Press.
THE best and most potent anti-poverty society
that we know anything about is the one formed
by the close alliance of health industry and
temperance. That association knocks pow
erty out every time.-Marlborough (Mass.)
Times.
WHEN jefferson Davis says he ibid all in his
power to prevent the late war" he probably for
gets about the guns and ammunition which be.
Buchanan's Secretary of War; sent South in
such wholesale quantities. just before the war
broke out-Philadelphia Inquirer.
WITH King Otto, of Bavaria. hopelessly in
sane, King Milan. of Servia, about to abdicate.
and Emperor William. of Germany, seriously i'll.
there are indications of some new moves on the
big chess board One thing certain, the tradi-
tional sick man of Europe has plenty of COM
pary in his misery. Record.
IT is said that nothing moro is heard of the
Ia iS "a
WE'LL If the President went West he would run
the risk of meeting Tuttle the train robbers
The President will probably solve the problem by
combining his tour to the South, where he will
find solid neutrality-suspicious. Constitu-
ton.
IT is now being asserted that the Presidents
clumsy and absurd letter of congratulaton to
Queen Victoria was written by Secretary Bay
ard: The principal use OF Mr. Bayard, it is very
well known, is to be thought capable of doing
things that are too preposterous for Mr.. Cleve-
land to acknowledRe.-St Louis Globe-Demo-
crat.
IF we are to have standard of commercial
honesty, we must teach men that business must
be conducted on legitimate principles: that the
man who uses public funds intrusted to him is a
thief; that the banker who speculates with the
deposits of his confding customers is a scoun-
drel whose place is in the penitentiary. It is
necessary that the business code should be mex
orable, otherwise the disposition the part of
young Napoleons to yield to temptation will be
increased.-New York World.
THE whole people is getting its eyes opened to
the fact that loyalty means sincere respect and
hearty obedience for law and that men who
honor rebelism in the past and uphold and
ward vote-steailng in tho present, are not loyal
men, have no claim to be trusted by law abiding
citizens and are of necessity and because of their
very nature and dominant spirit, the worst enc
mics that self-government can have. Next year
we shall see whether genuine loyalty is dead,
the administration has supposed.-New York
Tribune.